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1. about 10 hours ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Brussels sprouts changed in the 1990s, when Dutch breeders eliminated most of the bitterness from the commercial varieties.

2. 5 months ago on FoxTrot Classics

   The only family member even a little on top of their game is Jason. Roger, Andy, Paige and Peter are usually wrongfooted in their endeavors whenever the strip focuses on them. Roger’s lost at work and is bad at chess and golf. Andy cooks food that the rest of the family doesn’t want to eat, and her career has been thoroughly sidelined. Paige is a shallow imbecile, and Peter’s terrible at sports. Because generally speaking, foibles are funny. Jason’s the only one with exceptional skills, but he usually misses the forest for the trees.

   Dollars to doughnuts, guys whining about wokeness are the same guys who ruthlessly mock people uncomfortable with misogynistic and racist stereotypes in ’50s cartoons. Quick to dish it out, never willing to take it.

3. 8 months ago on FoxTrot Classics

   In the high school I went to, you had to sign up for the next year’s classes towards the end of your freshman, sophomore and junior years. So you’d know which teachers you’d have the next year, and for the English classes there were summer reading assignments.

4. 8 months ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I had assigned summer reading in high school, in California in the 90s, which would probably be more or less contemporaneous with these strips.

5. 9 months ago on FoxTrot Classics

   What I don’t get is, why do people who don’t get comics gravitate to comic strips? While this guy is probably politically triggered, I feel like nearly every comic I read on GoComics is filled with comments like “Since when are there wild rhinos in the US,” “Dogs can’t drive cars,” or something else completely missing the point of the joke. “What if Poncho isn’t lying to Chazz, and he’s just trying to be helpful?” Then the comic wouldn’t be funny. Which, fine, not everyone has to get jokes. But I feel like if I was one of those people then I wouldn’t keep reading comics.

6. 10 months ago on Pooch Cafe

   Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring) reference. “Fool of a Took!” But Poncho has Chazz’s last name, which is Palmer.

7. over 2 years ago on Pooch Cafe

   The kennel called and let him know? Or he finished his trip and Poncho wasn’t at the kennel to be picked up?

8. almost 3 years ago on FoxTrot Classics

   Also, I think the old Scantron forms only worked with pencil; ink was insufficiently opaque for their readers, or something.

9. almost 3 years ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I want to say that we continued using pencils for math, chemistry and physics all the way through high school, maybe college. There are different schools of thought, but I believe it was felt that math is more readable if you erase your mistakes instead of crossing them out, especially if you find a mistake early on in your work and have to redo a large block of it.

10. about 3 years ago on FoxTrot Classics

    I remember at least one strip where Jason was willing to play Roger when no one else would, but Roger wasn’t willing to take him up on it.